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- Readers Write In #531: Just a few ideas on ‘Goodbye’
- Interview: ‘Travels’ Ramji Natarajan (Location finder for RRR, Dilwale, Endhiran, and many others.)
- Mahesh Narayanan’s ‘Ariyippu’ (Malayalam) is a superb “thriller” that strips away all thrills to current a practical portrait of a migrant couple
- Readers Write In #530: Kantara: A Socio-Ethical Perspective
- My Top 10 record of movies for the Sight & Sound ballot, 2022
- Anvita Dutt’s beautiful ‘Qala’, on Netflix, places us into the way of thinking of a disturbed playback singer
- Deepak’s well-researched ‘Witness’, on SonyLIV, is a narrative about guide scavenging that’s extra earnest than emotional
- The Galatta Plus Round Table 2022
- Readers Write In #529: Thoughts on GASLIGHT, RANGOON RADHA
- Readers Write In #528: Thoughts on Love Today (Film)
- Alphonse Puthren’s ‘Gold’ (Malayalam) has a number of huge concepts however they don’t come collectively as a satisfying entire
- Interview: Guru Somasundaram (Winner of ‘Best Actor’, India, on the Asian Academy Creative Awards)
- Vivek’s underwhelming ‘The Teacher’ (Malayalam) might need labored higher as a pulpy B-movie than a “serious film with good intentions”
- Readers Write In #527: Gold – An overlong and indulgent comedy that solely shines in elements!
- Interview: Suresh Krishna (‘Baba’ re-release)
- Readers Write In #526: A ‘nauseating’ historical past, a memoir
- Interview: SJ Suryah, Pushkar-Gayathri, Andrew Louis (Vadhandhi)
- Prithvi Konanur’s very good ‘Hadinelentu (Seventeeners)’ opened the Indian Panorama part at IFFI; it’s a few leaked intercourse tape, and is a scalpel-sharp dissection of caste
- Prasun Chatterjee’s Dostojee is a transferring, lyrical drama a few childhood that struggles to transcend communal tensions
- Jeo Baby’s terrific ‘Sree Dhanya Catering Service’ is a funnier, extra free-flowing tackle ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’, with males doing the cooking this time
- Readers Write In #525: Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey- An obscene class narrative masquerading as gender rights story
- Readers Write In #524: A translation of Jeyamohan’s ‘Sivam’
- Anjali Menon’s intermittently efficient ‘Wonder Women’, on SonyLIV, is greatest loved as an experiment in narrative method
- Senna Hegde’s ‘1744 White Alto’, with Sharaf U Dheen, is a form of stoner comedy the place some jokes land big-time whereas others really feel pressured
- R Kaiser Anand’s ‘Anel Meley Pani Thuli’, starring Andrea Jeremiah as a rape survivor, on SonyLIV, is a powerful story that wanted stronger writing
- Interview: Vetri Maaran, Andrea Jeremiah, Kaiser Anand (Anel Meley Pani Thuli)
- Readers Write In #523: How fiction and non-fiction complemented one another in constructing my politics
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- Interview: Abhishek Bachchan (Breathe: Into the Shadows)
- Vasan Bala’s ‘Monica, O My Darling’, on Netflix, with Rajkummar Rao and a high forged, is a really fulfilling ‘retro’ murder-mystery, propelled by a super-retro rating
- Abhinav Sunder Nayak’s ‘Mukundan Unni Associates’, with a perfectly forged Vineeth Sreenivasan, is a scrumptious, deadpan, darkish comedy
- Interview: Udhayanidhi Stalin (Kalaga Thalaivan)
- 10 Questions: Bosco Martis (choreographer, director of ‘Rocket Gang’)
- Interview: Vasan Bala, Rajkummar Rao, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte (Monica, O My Darling)
- Pradeep Ranganathan’s ‘Love Today’ has an important theme that’s let down by the writing, which settles for simple jokes and simple sentimentality
- Happy birthday, Kamal Haasan
- Interview: Janhvi Kapoor (Mili)
- Readers Write In #522: Classics on YouTube #6 – Fallen Angel (1945)
- Readers Write In #521: The Elephant within the Room
- Mathukutty Xavier’s ‘Mili’, with Janhvi Kapoor, reveals that even a pure ‘genre film’ might be elevated via very good writing
- Interview: Anjali Menon (Wonder Women)
- Interview: Aishwarya Rajesh (Driver Jamuna)
- Interview: Pradeep Ranganathan (Love Today)
- Maju’s ‘Appan’, with Sunny Wayne and Alencier Ley Lopez, now on SonyLiv, is an attention-grabbing drama that’s higher with characters than plot
- 10 Questions: Anurag Kashyap
- Indra Kumar’s ‘Thank God’, with Ajay Devgn and Sidharth Malhotra, is a boring and shallow dramedy a few man who faces his sins
- Abhishek Sharma’s tedious ‘Ram Setu’, with Akshay Kumar as an atheist archaeologist, is an journey solely in title
- Readers Write In #520: PS1 review- Too many flaws to cowl up
- Tanglish Talks: Happy Deepavali
- Readers Write In #519: Classics on YouTube #5 – Made for Each Other (1939)